Legal Opinion

Askren v. Squire

Oregon Supreme Court

Decided July 18, 1896PublishedCited by 17 opinions

From Union: Robert Eakin, .Judge. This is a suit hy John Askren the assignee of certain claimants to foreclose alleged miners’ liens upon the Good Thought Quartz Mine, in Union County, the property of the defendant Abbie W. Squire.

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From Union: Robert Eakin, .Judge. This is a suit hy John Askren the assignee of certain claimants to foreclose alleged miners’ liens upon the Good Thought Quartz Mine, in Union County, the property of the defendant Abbie W. Squire. The facts disclosed by the complaint are that on November twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, certain persons who had performed labor in working said mine prepared their notices of lien to secure the amount claimed to be due each, and at said date assigned and delivered the same to plaintiff. The complaint, containing eight separate causes of suit, has…

1Per curiam

1. The defendant’s „ counsel contend that the refusal of the court to sustain the motion was an abuse of discretion which this court should review; that the defects appearing on the face of the complaint leave it o± en to the objection that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of suit, and that t ¡e failure to answer was not a waiver thereof; while counsel for the plaintiff insist that the court had jurisdiction of the person and subject matter of the suit, and hence the decree is not void, and the defendant having failed to answer the complaint, her appeal should be…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Head v. DanielsSupreme Court of Kansas · 1887
  2. Trullenger v. ToddOregon Supreme Court · 1873
  3. Smith v. Ellendale Mill Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1870

3Cited by17 opinions

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  4. Service v. Sumpter Valley Ry. Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1918
  5. Colwell v. ChernabaeffOregon Supreme Court · 1971

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